The Leadership Institute congratulates Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island on the approval and launch of a for-credit course on conservatism.
Yearly Archives For 2011
Dr. Strangelove Deconstructed
Professor interprets Dr. Strangelove in ways even its cast and crew never did.
College: Education’s Dead End
The problem with studies on college that come out of colleges is that they tend to stress the importance of higher education, even when their own data do not support that conclusion.
Iran vs. Iranians
Dating back to the 1979 Iranian revolution that lifted Ayatollah Khomeini to power and boldly challenged President Jimmy Carter, the US-Iranian relationship has been strained, to say the least.
Education Reform Goes Global
To conceive of a better education system for the struggling classrooms of the United States, Andrew Coulson of the CATO institute invited education experts from Sweden and Chile to share thoughts on their success.
Prof Weighs in on Wikileaks
Late last year, a law school professor weighed in on the wikileaks controversy over the reams of government documents, some confidential, which were published on the internet.
From Vacuity to Wikileaks
When an academic claims that a law is too vague, you know you must be dealing with the legal equivalent of London Fog.
Lessons From Chilean History
Is there a government in recent history that inherited runaway government spending, massive debt, entitlements and interference in the economy and turned it around? Yes, Chile in 1973.
Queer Ecology @ The MLA
A panel on “Queer Ecology” was featured at the 2011 Annual Convention of the Modern Language Association (MLA).
Queer Studies @ the MLA
While those casually aware of the Modern Language Association (MLA) might assume that a panel on “Queer Studies and the Future of the Profession” would deal primarily with LGBTQ issues, this year, those people would be wrong.